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A reserve seizure affected barber shops and beauty salons in Rome since Friday afternoon after Provincial President Nicola Zingaretti confirmed that The capital and its region will be closed again as of Monday, along with almost the entire country..
Women and men lined up in front of the hair salons, which were also full of reservations for Saturday. According to the Roman Trade Association, the number of guests at beauticians and nail salons increased by thirty percent in just a few hours. The association highlighted that another closure until April 6 would mean a loss of more than thirty million euros in income for the nearly five thousand hairdressers who work in Rome alone in the next two weeks.
The terraces of the bars, which remained open until 6 pm on Friday, were packed with young people gathered for their last joint “aperitif”. There were also crowds in the shops.
Nicola Zingaretti, the governor of Lazio of nearly six million residents, has confirmed that the country’s central province will also be completely closed starting Monday, entering a red epidemic. The same announced Attilio Fontana, president of the northern region of Lombardy, highlighting that even the nurseries will be closed.
The Health Ministry has not yet communicated the final list of provinces affected by the deficit and the extent of the tightening. According to press reports, only the islands of Sicily and Sardinia can remain low-risk areas.
However, where the reproduction rate has exceeded 1.25 in the last week, that is, 250 new patients have been identified for every 100,000 inhabitants, the area will be completely closed as of Monday. This means a full-day curfew, with the exception of grocery stores and convenience stores, the cessation of commerce and hospitality, the new transition to distance education, and the closure of the outer borders of cities. and peoples.
At the government meeting on Friday morning, the tightening was ordered for the period from March 6 to April 6. Either way, at Easter, there will be a national shutdown between April 3 and 5 in the regions not yet affected.
On Friday, Prime Minister Mario Draghi visited a vaccination point in the parking lot of Rome’s Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport, also known as Fiumicino Airport. The head of government expressed that the number of patients identified with Covid-19 has increased by 150,000 in the last week, an increase of 15 percent compared to the first week of March. The number of patients admitted to the intensive care unit increased by six hundred and fifty in one week. “We cannot allow intensive care units to fill up, we have to stop the increase in the death toll,” said Mario Draghi.
The prime minister thanked the Italians for their patience. He stressed that an additional € 32 billion in immediate aid will support businesses and families. Draghi said they will do everything possible to take in the “new poor” who have been left without work and livelihood due to the epidemic.
He announced that they want to triple the number of 170,000 vaccines that are currently administered daily in a few weeks. According to the Ministry of Health, 6.3 million people have been vaccinated at 1,694 vaccination points in the country since the end of December.
Mario Draghi explained that as soon as enough vaccines arrive, they want to vaccinate in all possible places, in companies, in gyms, in parking lots.
“Vaccination is the only way out,” he declared. He added that “it is not known when the health emergency will end, but the country must be ready to restart.” The ministries of economy and finance submitted to parliament on Friday a draft timetable for an economic recovery program of more than 200,000 million euros.
(MTI)
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